Calthrop, Dion Clayton, 1878-1937 · London, A. and C. Black · leaf 174
od was ample and the cloakwide. The women wore gowns of a like material to themen—loose gowns which reached to the ankles andgave scope for easy movement. They wore theirhair tied up in a wimple of coarse linen. , A PEASANT OF EARLY ENGLAND(William I.—Henr-y III.) His hood is made from sheep-Skin,… … THE COUNTRY FOLK 79 The people of the North were more ruggedlyclothed than the Southerners, and until the monksfounded the sheep-farming industry in Yorkshirethe people of those parts had no doubt to dependfor their supply of wool uponthe more cultivated peoples. Picture these people, then,in very…
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